Re: Basic Online Texts

From: Morris Coats (Morris.Coats@nicholls.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 14 2006 - 14:36:09 CDT

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    Steven,

    You might want to consider Gerald Stone's CoreMicroeconomics (2005),
    available at http://www.coreeconomics.com/MicroTextLink.htm
    Learning Technology Press: Littleton, CO. The text is available online
    for free, but you cannot print from the free online version. Also free
    on the book's website is a set of computer Animated Lectures on several
    more difficult graphical concepts.

    The CD of the Micro text in a printable pdf file is available for $25,
    which comes with 2 soft cover study guides, and audio summaries of the
    chapters on the CD in MP3 format.

    For your purposes, I would think that the free online text would be the
    way to go, however.
       
    Morris Coats
    Nicholls State University
    >>> "Steven Greenlaw" <sgreenla@umw.edu> 06/14/06 1:23 PM >>>
    This coming Fall I'm teaching a first year seminar on globalization. I
    anticipate having to teach students some basic economic tools, something
    like what is covered in the first few weeks of a principles course:
    scarcity, trade-offs, opportunity cost, comparative advantage and
    exchange, up to theories of supply, demand and market equilibrium. I
    don't think I can justify asking students to purchase a standard
    economics text, so I'm looking for online resources to cover these
    concepts. Can anyone suggest some?

    Thanks,

    - Steve

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    Professor of Economics
    University of Mary Washington
    Fredericksburg, VA 22401
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